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Monthly Archives: February 2014

My name is Marco Lastri (ML), I am an italian pro system-software engineer and also a pro-am musician.

I work as software engineering manager in scientific areas tied to artificial satellites. I have approx. 25 years of experience in computer science, algorithms, architectures and programming (I started to program my first computer at 12)…and I play any kind of software and hardware synthesizer. And also a little of drums! 🙂

I am interested in the music-electronics-software interaction (because I am not a good piano player! 🙂 ), so I tried to study Arduino (Intel Galileo), Raspberry PI platform and some other ARM based boards in order to create projects often tied to wearable musical instruments (yes, I love all old-style “keytars” such as Moog Liberation!!! 🙂 ).

So I decided to try this experience: a personal blog dedicated to my projects and to my ideas, based on open source hardware and software solutions.

…You will find here also tips’n’tricks found during my studies on these “black boxes” (damn’ lack of documentation!) called “embedded boards” !

This blog has been created in collaboration with the SirsLab of Università di Siena and with SirsLab official blog (many thanks to professors Domenico Prattichizzo and Monica Malvezzi), in order to share with the SirsLab people experiences on the wearable controller devices.

Firstly… why Arduino? Because it’s an italian product, an italian (good) idea. Because Italia is not only “spaghetti, pizza, mandolino” and corruption. 😉

…Why open source? Because I think it is the only way to create low price new ideas, also created by unexperienced people (but with great mental strenght!).

…Why an english blog? Beacuse, also if my english is poor, I think it’s a simpler way to share with the internet my ideas and my experience.

…Finally, why this blog is called “ML Garret Labs“? Because at the moment my lab is in my garret…. 🙂

Bye bye tech-geeks…and stay tuned!

PS: in the photo with Galileo, Galileo and me… there was also Figaro Magnifico (cit. Queen), but it was too on the right 🙂

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